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Trey Gowdy

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Trey Gowdy is a former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 4th congressional district, serving from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Gowdy gained national prominence as the chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, where he led investigations into the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. His tenure in Congress was marked by a focus on issues such as government oversight and national security. Prior to his congressional career, Gowdy served as a federal prosecutor and was known for his legal expertise and assertive questioning style during hearings.

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Sep 19, 2012

When you have a dead law enforcement officer, the next words out of your mouth are I want to know everything there possibly is to know about how this happened.

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Sep 19, 2012

I don't care which party is in power. It was about a dead Border Patrol agent and holding the institutions of government responsible for what they have done.

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Sep 19, 2012

I naively thought the attorney general, as the top law enforcement official in the Department of Justice, was that independent entity that we could trust.

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Sep 12, 2012

I believe you were with us, Mr. Speaker. I believe all of our colleagues were with us on the steps of the Capitol. We came together to remember 9/11 and what we lost and what we still grieve for as a Nation, Mr. Speaker, what we found as a…

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Sep 12, 2012

I want to thank you for your leadership on this and a host of other issues on the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Speaker, this week has provided tragic reminders that the world is a dangerous place. We are targets even from people we have helped…

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Sep 11, 2012

The Committee cannot do its job unless 100 percent of the documents are provided to this Congress.

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Sep 11, 2012

So, General Caldwell, my question to you, with specific reference to this policy, one of the goals of the policy is to promote a positive image of coalition forces.

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Sep 11, 2012

It seems to me that on September the 3rd, 2011, an article that negatively portrayed the hospital and our involvement with it appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Sep 11, 2012

You have to change the law. You don't just summarily decide that you are not going to enforce laws that have been duly passed.

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Aug 1, 2012

I want to thank my good friend and colleague, Tim Scott. And I was in rapt attention when he was talking. It was almost as if he stole my thoughts. But I don't mind because he's a member of the freshman class. And many of us in the…

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Aug 1, 2012

What the Democrats want to do, Madam Speaker, is bad citizenship. It is bad economics. It is bad for our fellow Americans. It remains to be seen if it's good electioneering or not. That remains to be seen. But duplicity is duplicity, no…

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Jul 18, 2012

this memo gave you no more authority than you had before you drafted it, which leads some of us to conclude that it was a political memo.

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